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Lewis Moody: mad dog and glory

If you were asked to compile a list of rugby players whose willingness to put their bodies on the line occasionally made the short journey from brave to bonkers, you wouldn't have used up much ink before scribbling down the name of the former Welsh full- back JPR Williams. Such was his legendary capacity to emerge unscathed from bone-shuddering collisions that when he was taken to hospital after crashing his car into a lorry, a spokesman emerged next morning with the bulletin: "Mr Williams is fine, but the lorry is still in intensive care."

Lewis Moody has pretty much the same fearless, some might say reckless, DNA. When the bodies go on the line at Vicarage Road this afternoon - as they always do when Wasps meet Leicester - there won't be a part of his own body that Moody isn't prepared to put in the way of a knee or a